We’ve got a shotgun, a chainsaw, a book, and a car – not much else we need to tell Ash’s story,” Bruce Campbell pauses and smiles, proud, as he should be, of what he’s helped create.
It’s just the two of us sitting in this quiet tucked away corner of a little incognito Auckland studio, and I’ve got thirty minutes on the clock. New Zealand has been good to me since I arrived in town to visit the set of season three of “Ash vs Evil Dead”, with its gorgeous gloomy beaches and surprisingly delicious dumplings, but nothing could compare to this moment. The man who single-handedly made me smitten with the horror genre the minute I watched that old Delta creep up to that spooky cabin years ago, is now posted confidently just a few feet from me, staring intently, chin raised as if to challenge me to a duel – or just to see if I can keep up with his quick wit.